Improvement in attaching handles to plows



JOHN L. LAUGHLiN.

Improvement in Attaching Handles to P|0ws. .NO. 115,069, v Patented May 23,1871.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING HANDLES TO PLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,069, dated May 23, 1871.

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN L. LAUGHLIN, of Peru, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Attaching Handles to Flows; and I do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon and being a part of this specification, in which my improvement is shown in perspective attaching to an iron-beam plow, the mold-board being omitted.

The nature of this invention relates to an improved method of attaching handles to plow-beams in such a manner that the same will be raised above the land-side, and thus prevent clogging. It consists in attaching a stay-bar to the side of the handle, so as to overlap and be bolted to the standard; in an ironbeam plow being provided with a lug to fit into the groove in the standard, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing, A represents the lower or standard portion of an iron plow-beam, to which the mold-board and laud-side are secured in the usual manner. B is the lower or front end of the handle of the land-side of the plow abutting on the rear edge of the standard. 0 is an iron splice-bar secured to they side of the handle, its end projecting a lit tle beyond the handle, and provided with a lug, a, which fits closely in the usual groove b or space between the ribs of the beam-stand \Vitnesses:

HARRY S. SPRAGUE, W. S. ROGERS. 

